And the latest award to lose all credibility

[yendi]

. . . would be the Annie, which certified Kung-Fu Panda as the year's best animated film. Over Wall-E.

I'm willing to buy that I don't understand enough about the technical side to understand why it deserved most of the technical awards it won. But Best Animated Feature? No way.

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[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

Apparently animators still prefer cartoons to be funny. I'm disappointed, but not entirely surprised.

Lee.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed KFP more than Wall-E.

After the Earth bound segment I felt Wall-E was rather generic and boring.

[yendi]

I felt that Wall-E, from start to finish, was the first non-Miyazaki animated film I'd seen in ages that was good enough to deserve a Best Picture Oscar nomination. KFP was fun, but only that.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Wall-E just didn't sell it to me the whole movie.

Your mileage obviously varied.

I still think Incredibles is the best adult oriented of the Pixar movies.

[curt-holman.livejournal.com]

I wonder what the previous Annies have been in the 'Pixar era.' Maybe there's an anybody-but-Pixar sentiment.

[yendi]

Not to date: Even Cars won Best Picture. The last Pixar flick to lose was Monsters Inc (losing to Spirited Away, which was the better movie). The only other loser was A Bug's Life (beaten by The Iron Giant).

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

With the exception of Cars, I think that list is pretty accurate.

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

Note that Dreamworks is one of the sponsors of the Annie awards.

[yendi]

Ah. That removes them from the "experts with shitty taste" category and place them into "tools." I have much lower expectations for tools.

[brak55.livejournal.com]

I was a little dumbfounded when I saw that last night. It will be interesting to see how the Academy Awards go.

[yendi]

Well, the Academy already decided not to nominate it for Best Picture, which is one of many reasons I really don't give a crap about the awards this year.